ArticleInternational journal of antimicrobial agents2018
Polymyxin B and fosfomycin thwart KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in the hollow-fibre infection model.
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Abstract
Polymyxin B (PMB) and fosfomycin are two 'old' antibiotics that consistently maintain activity against Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing organisms based on in vitro susceptibility testing. However, the use of each antibiotic in monotherapy has been associated with high rates of treatment failure. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the combinatorial pharmacodynamics of PMB and fosfomycin against KPC-producing K. pneumoniae (KPC-Kp). PMB front-loading (3.33 mg/kg for one dose, followed by 1.43 mg/kg every 12 h starting 12 h later) and burst (5.53 mg/kg for one dose, with no subsequent doses) simulated dosing regimens were explored in combination with fosfomycin (4 g every 8 h) against KPC-2-producing K. pneumoniae ST258 in a hollow-fibre infection model over 120 h. Population analysis profiles were used to track the temporal PMB and fosfomycin resistance profiles. Against isolate KPC-Kp 9A (PMB MIC = 0.5 mg/L; fosfomycin MIC ≤ 8 mg/L), monotherapies resulted in >3 log
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